"The Supreme Court is behaving like a political party," Justice Minister Friedmann said in a Friday interview for Yediot Acharonot. "In fact, it is behaving like a party with a religious character. It does things that I do not believe any Western court would dare do: it disseminates propaganda, lobbies journalists and Knesset members, had meetings with Knesset members.

"The lobby hurts the court's neutrality. There is a situation in which some parties are with it and some are not. Then these parties file petitions to the High Court," he said, presumably hinting that the outcome of the petitions is connected with the degree of favor the parties enjoy in the court's eyes.